Customer potato report (fwd)
The below message seems to qualify as the testing report.
The lilo problem is reported as a bug at:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/51/51418.html
It's not that /dev/hda should be used, but that the active partition and
fixing the mbr steps were not run. I just verified it on my machine, so
if I fail to respond after monday, it's because I can't boot :-)
The debconf problem is reported and apparently fixed at:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/55/55844.html
Brandon
Brandon Mitchell * http://public.surfree.com/bmitch
bmitch@surfree.com * ICQ: 30631197
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:28:55 -0500 (EST)
From: paulwade@greenbush.com
To: Brandon Mitchell <bmitch@surfree.com>
Subject: Customer potato report
This set used the 2.2.4 boot stuff and was gen'd from a Jan 12 mirror
copy. Probably you already know about this but passing it on just in case.
I can't hold back on generating potato images - most customers would
rather deal with these bugs in order to have it right away.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation +
+ mailto:paulwade@greenbush.com http://www.greenbush.com/ +
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> I was able to boot from a floppy and found out why potato can't boot
> from hard disk. It was writing /etc/lilo.conf wrong:
>
> > boot=/dev/hda2
> > root=/dev/hda2
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > map=/boot/map
> > delay=20
> > image=/vmlinuz
> > label=Linux
> > read-only
>
> The first line should be
>
> > boot=/dev/hda
>
> Right before the installation said "Next: Reboot", I went down to
> "Execute Shell", edited /etc/lilo.conf, reran lilo, and then exited and
> rebooted and it boots fine from the hard disk. Only other major problem
> I ran into was debconf seems to have perl bugs in
>
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm
>
> that keep it from being configured or keep other things that rely on
> debconf from being configured. Oh well, so far I just installed
> packages that didn't rely on debconf.
>
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-testing-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: